Hi, after dropping my thinkpad, the battery got slightly messed up. I have to move a battery pin to have it fit in the slot, the battery charging status is often not read by Linux, and sometimes power won’t be received even without the battery. I’m hoping the solution would just be figuring out how to remove the pin stuck in the motherboard slot (attempts so far have evaded me) and getting a new battery, but what does it look like to you? Thanks!
can you get an additional photo of the laptop’s connector, can’t make out what the issue is from this angle.
did something similar with a battery for an old macbook (same connector as pictured) and what I did was transplant it from a non-functioning battery. a word of warning, don’t dick around with fixing that connector with a fully loaded battery, shorting it can result in a burn-you-house-down mishap, them things can’t be extinguished once they catch fire.
it’s pretty hard to short it out, the positive is on the opposite end of ground
Is this photo what you were looking for?
Thanks for the warning!
I still don’t see what the issue is with the laptop side, looks stock to me.the plastic that got broken off is from the battery’s connector and it hinders the bent pin to make solid contact with the laptop side, right? short of superglueing/epoxying it in place and straightening out the bent pin, don’t see what else there is to be done.edit: nevermind, you answered that already in another reply.
wdym by the pin stuck in the motherboard slot?
at least on my T430 the pinout is:
| + | + | |SCL|SDA|unkn|GND|so the broken pin on yours should just be the positive terminal which is duplicated and shouldn’t matter
What I meant by that is the plastic piece sticking out on the motherboard side of the connection. I should have looked up a picture of the connection first to see that it’s normally there; I don’t know much about this and assumed it came off from the battery haha.
So if the motherboard side looks alright, then does replacing the battery seem like the right fix to you? It seems like there’s a chance something else is wrong besides the battery, though, because I experienced the computer being somewhat finicky about charging even with the battery removed, but maybe it’s nothing…
actually it might also be the charging cable/adaptor/port, does the connector feel wiggler than before?
Nothing does feel loose to me, but I found the charging issue (w/o battery) is weird but consistent: the OEM charger stopped working, but a 3rd party one does work consistently. I’m not sure what to make of both the OEM charger and the battery breaking simultaneously given that the OEM charger was not involved in the laptop dropping, but perhaps the charging port shifted in a way imperceptible to me. Either way, I’ve ordered a new battery, and I’ll try sticking with that and the 3rd party charger from now on. Thanks for the help!
uh probably yes, but I think it’s probably just the connector’s contact on the bms (battery management system) or motherboard that are bad. You could try seeing if they wiggle and solder them back in place if they are broken.
taking apart lenovo batteries are notoriously hard though, so it’s probably better to just get a new one
